Moffat Academy, Academy Road

Moffat Academy, located on Academy Road, was designed by John R Hill in 1932, with additions made in 1958 and several later modifications. This two-storey, 15-bay school features a piend roof and is prominently situated, displaying abstracted classical detailing on its symmetrical front elevation. The design includes advanced 3-bay end pavilions and a slightly advanced 3-bay central section topped with a small pediment. The sides and rear of the building have undergone later 20th-century additions.

The exterior is characterized by polished red sandstone ashlar dressings and squared, snecked whinstone, with red brick used at the rear. A red sandstone base course runs beneath the ground floor windows, and a horizontal band of grey whinstone separates the ground and first floor windows. The first-floor window cills project, and there is an eaves cornice along with a blocking course on the end pavilions. The building features channelled ashlar pilaster quoins and regular fenestration divided by sandstone piers, with giant pilasters formed at the centre, end pavilions, and side elevations that break the whinstone band.

On the sides and rear, the east and west elevations each have a 5-bay entrance with a central pedimented entrance bay that includes a corniced door architrave extending to the first-floor window. Regular fenestration is present on each side, although the east elevation is partially obscured by a later white-rendered addition. The irregularly fenestrated north (rear) elevation is made of red brick and features several later flat-roofed additions.

The windows have small-pane glazing in timber frames with tilting upper lights. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and includes metal flashings. Cast-iron rainwater goods with reeded hoppers are also present.

Inside, the school features sliding half-glazed timber-panelled interior doors in the south-facing classrooms, tongue and groove panelling along the dado of corridors, staircases, and classrooms, and plain timber balusters on the staircases. Some original cloakroom fittings remain, and there is a fitted gymnasium. A mural created in 1964 by A Little, A Cockayne, A Dempster, and A McNeil adorns the main hall.

The boundary wall and gatepiers, likely from the later 19th century, consist of a coped snecked sandstone wall with later railings between intermittent piers. The gatepiers to the south of the school are stop-chamfered and capped with pyramidal tops.